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Gov. Jerry Brown joined legislators and labor leaders to announce a landmark agreement that makes California the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour statewide on Mon., Mar. 28, 2016 in Sacramento, Calif.
No one who is working full time in California should live in poverty due to a low wage, said Democratic State Senator Mark Leno, who cosponsored the bill. The measure will raise the state's minimum wage to $10.50 in January and to $11 in January 2018.